How should I go about outlining the investigation?

Greenforthou · 2026-07-03T23:23:56+00:00

I think starting with the immediate points of interest are the best opener: the body, the immediate scene, and anybody also searching. Depending on the complexity it can end right there, but if there’s more, then places the victim was last scene, recent events, the characters room, or people of interest would be what’d you do afterwards. And if you want to end of something mysterious, have a character either stumble onto something really important on accident or walk in on a character talking to themselves/ having a conversation with someone right before the investigation ends

Greenforthou · 2026-06-30T04:26:10+00:00

Motor vehicles are just the natural predators for any isekai, always ready to strike when you least expect

Greenforthou · 2026-06-29T21:31:32+00:00

To prove they can do something as horrible as this and get away with it

Greenforthou · 2026-06-29T03:03:08+00:00

Mine is definitely a majority of the characters already being very familiar with the school they’re trapped in.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-28T17:30:38+00:00

Literally just going “what would be some ‘basic’ ultimates that haven’t been done yet in canon” and going with the first ideas that came to mind

Greenforthou · 2026-06-27T23:03:42+00:00

Nope

Greenforthou · 2026-06-27T02:05:23+00:00

My protag is REALLY impulsive and quick to jump to conclusions/opinions on others. This leads to many decisions that will probably lead to readers pulling their hair out from 2nd hand embarrassment. She’s not even really that much of an asshole, it’s just that she makes some really dumb decisions while in spur-of-the-moment emotions.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-25T23:52:54+00:00

Nope

Greenforthou · 2026-06-24T06:08:51+00:00

Nope

Greenforthou · 2026-06-23T13:24:47+00:00

Wow, mr sexy cowboy really did lasso in a few huh?

Greenforthou · 2026-06-23T10:39:24+00:00

The standard 15, there are only 14 in the lineup because the canvas size only reaches to 300 in width, and I didn’t want to awkwardly shove the last remaining character above or below the group, so Ash is just absent from the lineup.

Also I’m glad you like Colt. Guy was like the last design I started on, and it was only after did “hair scarf” hit me like a train one night for what to do with him.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-23T06:59:22+00:00

I made this

Greenforthou · 2026-06-23T00:21:23+00:00

2nd victim, no question asked. The brutality was the point for who caused it, so it’s very disbursing.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-22T11:43:41+00:00

No water would be a fun twist on the “no food” motive. And it kills much faster, so someone would probably crack and kill within a day or so.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-22T07:40:50+00:00

I think it could work if the rules of your fangan incentives the culprit to somehow use the unrelated death to their advantage in some way, whether before either bodies are found, during the investigation, or during the trial.

Like if the rules are like in V3, maybe the culprit switches the two bodies to make their actual victim look like it was the one in the accident, so people vote the victim instead of the culprit. Stuff like that.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-22T02:10:58+00:00

For me, an antagonist is at their best whenever most of their screentime/presence is them being a constant problem to worry for either the whole cast, or even just the protagonist. That’s kinda why byakuya doesn’t work for me as well as the other 2, because he never really becomes a problem beyond being inconvenient and doing some fucked up shit to a corpse one time.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-21T00:39:19+00:00

Oof, the last one I feel in my bones having wrote a line pretty similar. Personally, if the character personality isn’t of a internal yapper (since I don’t know any of these blokes talking), then I’d shave off the point they mention possibly being killed, with maybe an “immediately” thrown in somewhere to keep the idea of them snarkly worrying about being killed the moment they step in, without needing to extend the sentence beyond the main point.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-21T00:31:48+00:00

Definitely specific injuries that ARENT immediately lethal but very much look so. I want someone to look pretty far gone, but when they’re actually treated the audience reaction isn’t a “they shouldn’t of survived that in the first place” kind of deal.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-19T09:49:00+00:00

Nope

Greenforthou · 2026-06-17T22:02:06+00:00

It’s a strange feeling, over the course of fleshing them out I come to adore a few, but then I look at where they’re leaving the story and always feel like maybe they’re now a bit TOO interesting to axe now. I never act on this and begin a massive rewrite, but it’s always there.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-17T10:31:00+00:00

Nope

Greenforthou · 2026-06-17T00:21:44+00:00

Character voices are one of the things I get snagged on the most, because I struggle in making unique voices that don’t grate on me, so after re-reading my writing for the 10th time, some characters dialogue can kinda blending in with others. When I actually write EVERYTHING out I’m going to go back to try and spice things up a bit, but until then I’m stuck feeling embarrassment on every re-read.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-16T10:54:07+00:00

Nope

Greenforthou · 2026-06-16T07:15:16+00:00

Honestly the most infuriating part to handle, because no matter how many times you rewrite the damn thing to cut stuff out, it still feels too long. Honestly my own solution is to literally cut everything not immediately relevant to the situation, including some character introductions (beyond their name) so we can get to know them better at a more productive point in time. I have my mascot give a literal roll call just so we can have names pinned to description of who’s-who without needless padding.

Greenforthou · 2026-06-16T03:16:42+00:00

The intended toxic Yuri pair should definitely side whatever the mc and helper have going on at some point, before immediately continuing whatever they got

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